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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Distilled water containing the essential oils of flowers, as rose-water.
Examples
“Avast, ye scurvy purveyors of baby powder suffused with rotten flower-water!”
““I put this question to the clerk, who showed me something that smelled like baby powder suffused with rotten flower-water from a vast.””
“I put this question to the clerk, who showed me something that smelled like baby powder suffused with rotten flower-water from a vast.”
“Mary had just asked Mary Seton to bring her the elder flower-water to smooth over her shoulders and neck.”
“Her elder flower-water ritual, her quiet moment, the little circle of beauty and refinement she had created, privately, was now to be smashed.”
“Pass the yolks of six eggs through a sieve, add six ounces of white sugar in powder, and two table-spoonfuls of trebly-distilled orange flower-water, and, as before mentioned, place the cups in a”
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852
“Oranges to make oranges and ricotta cake with oranges in flower-water syrup”
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“Orange and ricotta cake with oranges in flower-water syrup”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Click on the links to the left for Diana's delicious flower-filled recipes: Turkish rose and cardamom ice cream with pistachio biscuits; brown-sugar meringues with lavender cream and blackberries; and orange and ricotta cake with oranges in flower-water syrup”
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“Click on the links on the left for Diana's delicious recipes for slow-cooked shoulder of lamb with pomegranate; pomegranates, dates and oranges with flower-water syrup; and roast pumpkin, mint and labneh salad with walnuts and pomegranates”
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